Life and career

Miller was born in The Bronx, New York. Miller served a tour of duty in the United States Navy. Miller attended the City College of New York as well as Columbia University. He performed on Broadway and also worked at the Bellevue Hospital Mental Hygiene Clinic and the psychiatric department of Queens General Hospital. In 1952, he moved to California seeking work as a writer. One of his earliest acting roles was in Apache Woman (1955). He played one of the town's people and also a separate role as an Indian. In an action scene his town person character shot his Indian character, as related in the documentary Corman's World.

Richard Miller is also credited for being in a Sega CD video game called Prize Fighter in which he plays the role of a corner man for the main character.

His roles in movies include White Line Fever, The Terminator, All The Right Moves, Night of the Creeps, Small Soldiers, It Conquered the World, A Bucket of Blood, The Little Shop of Horrors, the Tales from the Crypt movie Demon Knight, Amazon Women on the Moon, Chopping Mall, The Howling, Piranha and I Wanna Hold Your Hand. His best known role was in the movies Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch as Murray Futterman. He appeared in Pulp Fiction as Monster Joe, but his scene and a few others were deleted because of the length of the film. He also appeared in Rod Stewart's music video for the song "Infatuation" in 1984, with Mike Mazurki and Kay Lenz.

His television credits include V: The Final Battle as Dan Pascal, three seasons as the generous bartender Lou Mackie on Fame, and appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation in the season 1 episode "The Big Goodbye" as the newspaper stand man in the holodeck, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the season 3 two-part episode "Past Tense" as Vin, Time of Your Life, as a prison guard in Soap (1979) and he voiced the gangster Chuckie Sol in the animated feature film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. Miller has also directed television shows, including "The Fix" a 1986 episode of the series Miami Vice.

In 2000, Miller was featured alongside former collaborators including Roger Corman, Sam Arkoff and Peter Bogdanovich in the documentary SCHLOCK! The Secret History of American Movies, a film about the rise and fall of American exploitation cinema. 2014 appeared in the documentary film over his life That Guy Dick Miller.

Walter Paisley

Miller has portrayed several fictional characters named Walter Paisley. As Miller notes, "I've played Walter Paisley five times now, I think." As of 2011, the character name has actually appeared seven times on film and once in a theatrical production, with Miller providing six of these portrayals.

The name first appeared in the Roger Corman film A Bucket of Blood. In that film, Paisley is a busboy who becomes an artist of sorts by killing his subjects and covering them in clay. In 1976, Miller once again played a character named Walter Paisley—this time a talent agent—in another Corman production, Hollywood Boulevard, directed by Allan Arkush and Joe Dante.

Dante cast Miller as another character named Walter Paisley in the 1981 film The Howling. This time, Paisley is the owner of an occult bookshop. Two years later, the name popped up again for another Miller character, the owner of a diner in the third segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie. 1986's Chopping Mall featured a janitor named Walter Paisley, and the 1994 made-for-TV remake of Shake, Rattle and Rock! had Miller playing a character named Officer Paisley.

Additionally, two other actors have portrayed the A Bucket of Blood character. Anthony Michael Hall played the character in the 1995 television remake, while James Stanton portrayed the character in a musical produced by Chicago's Annoyance Theatre.

Selected filmography

Year	Films	Role	Director	Notes
1956	It Conquered the World	First Sergeant	Corman, RogerRoger Corman
1957	Naked Paradise	Mitch	Corman, RogerRoger Corman
1957	Not of This Earth	Joe Piper	Corman, RogerRoger Corman
1957	Rock All Night	Shorty	Corman, RogerRoger Corman
1957	Sorority Girl	Mort	Corman, RogerRoger Corman
1957	Carnival Rock	Benny	Corman, RogerRoger Corman
1958	War of the Satellites	Dave Boyer	Corman, RogerRoger Corman
1959	Bucket of Blood !A Bucket of Blood	Walter Paisley	Corman, RogerRoger Corman
1960	Little Shop of Horrors !The Little Shop of Horrors	Burson Fouch	Corman, RogerRoger Corman
1962	The Premature Burial	Mole	Corman, RogerRoger Corman
1963	Terror !The Terror	Stefan	Corman, RogerRoger Corman
1966	Wild Wild Winter	Rilk	Weinrib, LennieLennie Weinrib
1966	Wild Angels !The Wild Angels	Rigger	Corman, RogerRoger Corman
1967	Dirty Dozen !The Dirty Dozen	MP at Hanging	Aldrich, RobertRobert Aldrich	Uncredited
1967	A Time for Killing	Zollicoffer	Karlson, PhilPhil Karlson
1967	Trip !The Trip	Cash	Corman, RogerRoger Corman
1972	Night Call Nurses	Mr. Jensen	Kaplan, JonathanJonathan Kaplan
1973	The Young Nurses	Cop	Kimbrough, ClintClint Kimbrough
1973	Fly Me	Taxi Driver	Santiago, CirioCirio Santiago
1973	The Student Teachers	Coach Harris	Kaplan, JonathanJonathan Kaplan
1973	The Slams	Taxi Driver	Kaplan, JonathanJonathan Kaplan
1974	Truck Turner	Fogarty	Kaplan, JonathanJonathan Kaplan
1974	Big Bad Mama	Bonney	Carver, SteveSteve Carver
1974	Summer School Teachers	Sam	Peeters, BarbaraBarbara Peeters
1975	Capone	Joe Pryor	Carver, SteveSteve Carver
1975	Crazy Mama	Wilbur Janeway	Demme, JonathanJonathan Demme
1975	White Line Fever	Birdie	Kaplan, JonathanJonathan Kaplan
1975	Darktown Strutters	Officer Hugo	Witney, WilliamWilliam Witney
1976	Hollywood Boulevard	Walter Paisley	Dante, JoeJoe Dante
1976	Moving Violation	Mack	Charles S. Dubin
1976	Cannonball	Bennie Buckman	Bartel, PaulPaul Bartel
1977	New York, New York	Palm Club Owner	Scorsese, MartinMartin Scorsese
1977	Mr. Billion	Bernie	Kaplan, JonathanJonathan Kaplan
1978	Starhops	Jerry	Peeters, BarbaraBarbara Peeters
1978	I Wanna Hold Your Hand	Sergeant Brenner	Zemeckis, RobertRobert Zemeckis
1978	Piranha	Buck Gardner	Dante, JoeJoe Dante
1978	Corvette Summer	Mr. Lucky	Robbins, MatthewMatthew Robbins
1979	The Lady in Red	Patek	Teague, LewisLewis Teague
1979	Rock 'n' Roll High School	Police Chief	Arkush, AllanAllan Arkush
1979	11th Victim	Investigator Ned	Kaplan, JonathanJonathan Kaplan
1979	1941	Officer Miller	Spielberg, StevenSteven Spielberg
1980	Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood !The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood	New York Cop	Roberts, AlanAlan Roberts
1980	Used Cars	Man in Bed	Zemeckis, RobertRobert Zemeckis
1980	Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype	Irsil and Orson	Charles B. Griffith
1981	Howling !The Howling	Walter Paisley	Dante, JoeJoe Dante
1981	Smokey Bites the Dust	Glen Wilson	Charles B. Griffith
1981	Heartbeeps	Factory Watchman	Arkush, AllanAllan Arkush
1982	National Lampoon's Movie Madness	Dr. Hans Kleiner	Giraldi, BobBob Giraldi	Segment: "Success Wanters"
1983	Heart Like a Wheel	Mickey White	Kaplan, JonathanJonathan Kaplan
1983	Get Crazy	Susie's Dad	Arkush, AllanAllan Arkush
1983	All the Right Moves	Teacher in Auditorium	Chapman, MichaelMichael Chapman
1983	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Bar Owner	Dante, JoeJoe Dante	Segment: "It's a Good Life"
1983	Space Raiders	Crazy Mel	Howard R. Cohen
1984	Gremlins	Murray Futterman	Dante, JoeJoe Dante
1984	Terminator !The Terminator	Pawn Shop Clerk	Cameron, JamesJames Cameron
1985	Explorers	Charlie Drake	Dante, JoeJoe Dante
1985	After Hours	Diner Waiter (Pete)	Scorsese, MartinMartin Scorsese
1986	Night of the Creeps	Walt	Dekker, FredFred Dekker
1986	Armed Response	Steve	Ray, Fred OlenFred Olen Ray
1986	Chopping Mall	Walter Paisley	Wynorski, JimJim Wynorski
1987	Project X	Max King	Kaplan, JonathanJonathan Kaplan
1987	Amazon Women on the Moon	Danny Clayton	Various
1987	Innerspace	Cab Driver	Dante, JoeJoe Dante
1988	Dead Heat	Cemetery Security Guard	Goldblatt, MarkMark Goldblatt	Uncredited
1989	Burbs !The 'Burbs	Vic the Garbage Man	Dante, JoeJoe Dante
1990	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Murray Futterman	Dante, JoeJoe Dante
1990	Mob Boss	Mike	Ray, Fred OlenFred Olen Ray
1992	Evil Toons	Burt	Ray, Fred OlenFred Olen Ray
1993	Batman: Mask of the Phantasm	Chuckie Sol	Radomski, EricEric Radomski Timm, BruceBruce Timm	Voice only
1993	Matinee	Herb Denning	Dante, JoeJoe Dante
1993	Fallen Angels	Carl	Hanks, TomTom Hanks	Episode: "I'll Be Waiting"
1993	Fallen Angels	Morris Hornbeck	Kaplan, JonathanJonathan Kaplan	Episode: "Since I Don't Have You"
1994	Pulp Fiction	Monster Joe	Tarantino, QuentinQuentin Tarantino	Deleted scene
1995	Demon Knight	Uncle Willy	Dickerson, Ernest R.Ernest R. Dickerson
1998	Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy !The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy	Peddler	Dante, JoeJoe Dante
1998	Small Soldiers	Joe	Dante, JoeJoe Dante
2003	Looney Tunes: Back in Action	Security Guard	Dante, JoeJoe Dante
2009	Hole !The Hole	Pizza Delivery Guy	Dante, JoeJoe Dante	Uncredited
2014	Burying the Ex	Grumpy Cop	Dante, JoeJoe Dante
2014	That Guy Dick Miller	Himself	Drenner, ElijahElijah Drenner	Documentary

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